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Another AAPS-affiliated doctor on Beck's health care show

October 18, 2009 2:48 pm ET by Terry Krepel

We previously highlighted how Glenn Beck's October 16 Fox News program on health care reform included in its audience of doctors Richard Amerling, a director of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, a conservative-leaning group that holds several controversial views, including promoting the right-wing conspiracy theory that Vince Foster didn't commit suicide.

Now, Talking Points Memo has identified another AAPS-affiliated doctor in Beck's audience: David McKalip, the doctor who notoriously emailed a racist image depicting President Obama as a witch doctor to his fellow "tea party" activists.

AAPS' "Take Back Medicine" website features an "open letter to America's physicians" by McKalip asserting that health care reform will "turn doctors into servants of the state, insurance companies, hospitals, and everyone except who matters most: the patient."

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    • Author by pamom (October 18, 2009 3:51 pm ET)
         
      I watched the show. Any time any of the younger doctor's actually tried to have an intelligent conversation or went off what Beck considered to be his talking points, he quickly shut them down. It was a farce.
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    • Author by kb8nfu (October 19, 2009 2:23 am ET)
         
      I don't know much about all of this political stuff, healthcare and all the BS from our representatives in the legislature. I just want a leader that listens to the people. The legislature in D.C. is not listening, nor do they give a rats ass about the working person, except to take their hard earned money for their special interest in the form of taxation.
      I don't see any concern for our wishes comming from the Democrats or the Republicans.
      I don't think the federal government can fix any social problems, they just complicate life with their forms and endless lines of waiting, kinda like the store return line after Christmas.
      I think it's time to get back to the original ideas that this country was founded on. A group of teritories and colonies decided to try and pool their resorces to provide for the common good of the public and privide security for that republic. States rights. Where are we now? The Federal government has encroached, ever so incrementally, on our rights as Americans. Now try and buy a tobacco seed, or rubber plant seed.
      What do you want from the federal government, protection or control?
      blake_braesicke@netzero.net
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    • Author by MagCynic (October 19, 2009 2:54 am ET)
         
      And how much time did this Richard Amerling and David McKalip speak? Were they merely present in the audience or did Beck show favoritism towards these two?
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    • Author by Diosnomeama (October 19, 2009 8:38 am ET)
         
      The sad thing is, people like this yelled loud enough and threw enough money at Congress and the Senate to make the health care bill a pathetic shadow of what it could have been.
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